# Waves of the Iranian diaspora

_Course · Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council · https://iranians.global/learn/courses/waves-of-the-iranian-diaspora/_

Why and how Iranians left, where they settled, and how each wave built its community.

## Record

- **Code**: IDCDC-DIA-01
- **School**: Diaspora studies
- **Levels**: F
- **Hours**: 16 · estimated hours
- **Format**: Self-paced online with family-history exercises.
- **State**: outlined
- **Run**: built
- **Modules**: Old dispersions · Students and professionals before 1979 · 1979 and the 1980s · 1990s to 2010s · Recent departures · Counting the diaspora
- **Outcomes**: Distinguish the main migration waves and their causes. · Explain how statistics count, and miss, the diaspora. · Compare the community's history in at least two countries. · Record a family migration story with consent.

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## See also

- [The Academy](https://iranians.global/learn/)